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No. 6||,345. Patented sept. 27, |898.

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WINDOW 'SHADE FIXTURE.

STATES PARRlSl-I O. WEEKS,

PATENT rricn.;

To LUCY L.

WINDOW-SHADE FIXTURE.

SPECIFICATION forming pari-of Letters PatentNo. 611,345, dated September 27, 1898.

Application nea December 27,1697. seria No. 666,696. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, PARRISH C. WEEKS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kansas City, in the county of Wyandotte and State of Kansas, have invented a new and useful Vindow-Shade Fixture, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in that class 'of window-shade hangers which provide for the vertical adjustment of the shade to any desired height on the windowcasing, so that the shade may be lowered to admit light and air at the top of the window, while affording a screen to the lower part thereof, or it may be raised to cover the whole or any part of the window.

The object of the present invention is to provide a window-curtainv hanger which may be easily and quickly applied at a minimum cost to an ordinary window-frame.

Afurther object of the invention is to provide an improved hanger which may be adj usted to curtains of different widths and which is so constructed as to guide'the adjusting-cord out of the way of the shade and the hanger, thus obviating the liability of the cord being caught in or tangled with the shade or its hanger and insuring proper adjustment of .the hanger with the cord.

With these ends in view the invention consists of an extensible curtain-hanger comlprising wire members slidably coupled together and each bent to form a guide-loop between its shank and a depending arm and with an oblique loop which lies atthe lower free extremity of said arm and is in vertical alinement with said guide-loop, one arm having a journal-eye at a point intermediate of its length and the other arm provided with an oblong loop which lies in the same horizontal plane as said journal-eye, combined with a shade-roller mounted inthe journaleye and loop of the hanger above the oblique loops thereof, and a running-cord threaded through the guide-loops and having its lower length carried and guided across the hanger belowr the shade, as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

To enable others to understand myinvention, I have illustrated thesamein the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and in which- Figure l is a front elevation of a window with my improved hanger applied thereto and showing the same with its shade in a partly lowered condition. Fig. 2 is an en* larged detail perspective view of the improved hanger detachedfrom the shade, the operatingcord, and the window. Fig. 3 is an elevation looking at the left-hand end of the hanger, shown by Fig. 2. Fig. 4. is an enlarged detail View, partly in elevation and partly in section, of the Acord-clamp applied to the facing of a window-frame.

Like numerals of reference denote like and corresponding parts in each of the several figures of the drawings. Referring now by numeral to the drawings, l indicates my improved hanger. For simplicity and cheapness in the manufacture of the hanger I make it of spring-Wire, and to render the hanger capable of use in connection with shades of different widths it is made in sections, whichare connected slidably togetherin a manner to render the hanger eX- tensible longitudinally.

As shown by Fig. 2, the hanger consists of two members or sections 2 3, each of which is bent froln a single piece of wire. The wire forming each section of .the hanger is bent to produce agsmooth straight elongated shank 4, a loop 5,'and a shade-carrying arm 6. The loop 5 is formed on each section of the hanger at the point where the shank andV thecarrying-arm are joined together, and these loops 5 on the hanger provide the vertical guideeyes, through which the operating-cord is adapted to pass.

One section of the hanger has its depending shade-carrying arm 6 provided with a round eye 7, while the depending shade-carrying arm of the other section of the hanger has a Vertical elongated loop 8 formed therein. The eye 7 and the loop 8 of the shade-carrying arms forming parts of the hanger lie in substantially the same horizontal plane, and they are adapted to receive, respectively, the cylindrical trunnion at one end `of a spring shade-roller and the polygonal tenen or end of the spindle which protrudes beyond the IOO- other end ot said shade-roller, whereby the shade-roller is supported in the arms of the hanger in a manner to rotate freely therein, and at the saine time the shade is adapted to be adjusted vertically with said hanger.

The straight shanks 4 of the han ger-sections are adapted to lie alongside or overlap each other, as represented by Fig. 2, and said shanks are slidably connected together by means of the loops 9 10, one of which is formed on the inner extremity of each hanger-shank and is adapted to be beut around the shank of the other section of said hanger. The described construction connects the two sections of the hanger together for longitudinal adjustment and enables the hanger to be readily adapted to curtains which may vary in width.

Under all adjustments of the hanger-sections the shade-carrying arms 6 thereof lie at right angles to the shanks and parallel to each other, and thus said arms 6 are well adapted to receive the trunnions of the shade-roller to support the latter parallel to the extensible shank of the hanger. The depending shadecarrying arms of the hanger are provided at their free ends with loops or eyes 11, which stand obliquely to the length of the arms 6, and these oblique loops provide eyes in the vertical plane of the eyes formed by the loops 5, whereby the shade-adjusting. cord 12 is adapted to pass through the eyes 5 and 11.

I employ a single continuous adj usting-cord for the hanger and the shade. This adjusting-cord is used in connection with the screweyes 13 or their mechanical equivalents. The screw-eyes are suitably attached to the window-casing at the cap or head thereof, and one strand of this adjusting-cord is passed horizontally through said eyes, thence carried down through the eyes 5 and 11 at one end of the hanger, thence carried horizontally across the window-frame below the shade-roller, thence extended through the eye 11 and upwardly through the eye 5, and, finally, it is extended through one of the screw-eyes 13 and carried down alongside of the major length of the strand'to be attached thereto at a suitable point, indicated at 14. This free end of the cord may be fastened to the major length thereof by knottin g or tying the same around said major length, as at 14, and it will t-hus be seen that I provide a single operating-cord which is doubled for a part of its length and loosely connected with the shade-roller to play freely through 'the screw-eyes 13 and the several eyes or loops 5 11 of the hanger itself. It will also be understood that the horizontal strands of the single operating-oord are connected with the shade-hanger in a manner to be entirely free from the roller and the shade thereon, and thus the operation of nnwinding or coiling the roller does not at all interfere with the adjustment of the operating-cord by which the hanger and the shade may be raised or lowered to the required positions.

The shade-hanger is fitted against the face of the window-casing in a horizontal position, so as to have the loops or eyes of said hanger bear or ride against the face of the windowcasing. The shade is readily adjusted to the hanger by springing the arms 6 slightly and for a suflicient distance to permit the trunnion and polygonal end of the shade-spindle to fit in the eyes or loops 7 8, respectively, of said hanger, and the shade-roller is free to rotate in the usual manner within said hanger to permit the shade to be drawn down or to coil the shade upon itself. The adjustingcord 12 may be released to allow the hanger and shade to descend by gravity whenever it is desired to expose the upper part of the window for the admission of light and air above the shade and its hanger, but to wholly screen the window it is necessary to adj ust the hanger and shade to the upper part thereof, under which condition of service it is necessary to fasten the adj Listing-cord securely in place.

I provide anovel form of clamp for holding the adjusting-cord, the hanger, and shade against displacement, which clamp is illustrated more clearly by Fig. 4E of the drawings.

In making the clamp 15 I take a stout piece of wire and bend it to produce the coil 16 and the binding-arm 17. The coil extends substantially at right angles to the plane of the binding-arm, and through the opening provided by coiling the wire upon itself to produce the coiled eye 16 is passed an attaching-screw 18, which is fastened in the window-casing at'a suitable distance from the sill thereof. This attaching-screw maybe adjusted to compress the coiled eye 16 more or less in order to vary the pressure of the binding-arm 17 against the window-casing and the adj usting-cord 12, and

said screw thus serves as a means for the attachment of the clamp to the window-casing and as a means for varying the pressure or tension of said clamp on the adjusting-cord.

To apply my improved window-shade fixture to a window, it is necessary to attach the screw-eyes 13 to the cap-rail or head of the window-casing and then pass the adjustingcord through said screw-eyes. One strand of the adj usting-cord is now carried downwardly through the eyes 5 andll on one side of the hanger, after which it is led horizontally across the face of the window-casing and passed upwardly through the guides or eyes 5 and 11 at the other end or side of the hanger, and iinally it is carried through one guide or eye 13 and attached at 14 to the major length of the adjusting-cord. The hanger, having been previously adjusted to accommodate itself to the width of the window and the shaderoller, is now arranged in the bight or loop of the adjusting-cord to occupy a horizontal position and to ride against the sides of the Window-casing, and the shade is now adjusted to the hanger by fitting its cylindrical trunnion in the eye 7 and the polygonal end of its spindle in the loop 8. The adjusting-cord 12 may be engaged with the binding-arm 17 of the clamp to be held securely in place thereby, or`

said cord may be free from the clamp to allow the shade and hanger to be adjusted to the desired elevation.

From the foregoing description it is evident that my improved iixture may be applied to any ordinary windowframe quickly and easily, as it is only necessary to attach `the screw-eyes for the running-cord. i

The described construction obviates the employment of brackets to be fastened to the window-casing, which, as is Well known, often require considerable care and experience in attaching the brackets to irregularly formed or shaped Window-casings. The improved device may be readily applied to such irregularly-formed casings with ease and despatch, because it only requires the attachment of screw-eyes into the casing.

It is evident that changes in the form and proportion of parts and in the details of construction may be made without departing from the spirit or sacrificing the advantages of the invention.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-n An extensible curtain-hanger consisting of the Wire members, 2, 3, slidably coupled together and each provided with a depending` arm, 6, and bent to form a guide-loop, 5, between its shank and said depending arm and also provided with an oblique loop, 1I, which lies at the lower free extremity of said arm and is in vertical alinement with the guideloop, 5, one arm having the journal-eye, 7, at

a point intermediate of its'length and the other Y 

